Geography
Turn your curiosity about the world around you into a career in geospatial technology, spatial analysis, or geography at Sinclair Community College. Geography bridges the social sciences with the natural sciences to provide a holistic view of the world. Geography and GIS courses offer opportunities to solve problems, view the bigger picture, develop geospatial skills, and adapt to technological change.
Expand Your Job Opportunities With a GIS Degree
Our GIS graduates go on to rewarding careers as GIS analysts, GIS technicians, GIS programming specialists, and aerial sensing data analysts. Earning a GIS degree or certificate can lead to work in agriculture, healthcare, urban planning, engineering, natural resources, and many other industries.
Earn Credentials by Completing GIS Courses
Earn industry-recognize certificates as part of your GIS coursework. These embedded certificates will be automatically awarded when the requirements are met.
Complete a Short-Term Certificate
Sinclair offers several GIS certificates that can be completed within one year, which means you could find new career opportunities in new industries quickly.
Gain Experience Through Real-Life GIS Projects
At Sinclair, we prioritize experiential and hands-on learning. Students in GIS courses have the opportunity to work with community partners to create map projects for use in local planning projects.
We have partnered with organizations, including, the Dayton’s Community and Planning Department, Five Rivers Metro Parks, and the Dayton Collaboratory to complete a number of projects, for example:
- Walkability Study of Downtown Dayton
- Mapping Ecological Corridors in Northwest Dayton
- Dayton Mid-Century Modern Buildings and LEED
- Economic Study of East Third Street
- Walk Dayton Project
- Dayton Neighborhoods Tree Equity Project
Geography/GIS Mission
- Provide students with knowledge about the human and physical processes that shape our global world.
- Foster understanding of human-environment interactions and sustainability.
- Develop abilities of reason, collect and analyze data, synthesize information and draw conclusion and effectively communication with others.
- Provide students with technology skills needed to study spatial relationship students for careers and productive citizenship through lifelong learning.
- Provide students with opportunities to work on collaborative projects in the community and gain first-hand experience through internships.
Specialized Learning Spaces
Center for Applied Social Issues (CASI) Research Center is a computer classroom/lab in Building 12, Room 363 that supports the program/course outcomes of quantitative literacy in Geographic Information Systems and in Geography (GIS).
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